Blogs - Tags - hybrid-development Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries03022015-05-15T16:43:55-04:00IBM Connections - Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-7ac14143-0f52-43d8-adf2-241eccc2add0Hybrid Cloud Management Workshop at InterConnect 2017: Managing Multi-Cloud Environments with EaseVijaysanthi270007G50EactivefalseVijaysanthi270007G50EactivefalseComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikestrue2017-03-13T05:32:30-04:002017-03-13T05:34:48-04:00<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">If your organization uses different public/private cloud environments and you&rsquo;re looking for a single solution to manage these multi-cloud environments, you should continue reading this blog. </span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">We&rsquo;re all aware that enterprises are rapidly moving towards adopting cloud services for their cloud native applications. While doing so, they have started realizing that no single cloud vendor has the ideal solution that would meet all their needs, and the best way they can maximize the benefits of their cloud services is by leveraging several cloud providers. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">As new cloud providers are added to an enterprise, the new services and capabilities offered by them, make the task of managing and monitoring a multi-cloud environment challenging. A multi-cloud environment brings in the need to have a cloud management platform to make the life of both the infrastructure administrator and users, easy. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">To successfully leverage a cloud management platform for multi-cloud environments, it is important to standardize and automate the delivery of cloud services to the end users. IBM Cloud Automation Manager does that and more. </span></span><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">IBM Cloud Automation Manager</span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">, a new multi-cloud management offering from IBM will be released soon. This new offering will allow clients to manage multi-cloud environment via a single dashboard. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">At <a href="http://bit.ly/2017InterConnect">InterConnect 2017</a>, we will be featuring this offering and more. Attend the workshop <strong>&ldquo;Managing Multi-Cloud Environments with Ease&rdquo;</strong> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">to have an open discussion with IBM experts on IBM Cloud Automation Manager and learn how it can help provide speed, control, flexibility and intelligence to manage your multi-cloud environments with ease. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><a href="http://bit.ly/2017InterConnect" target="_blank">Register</a> for InterConnect 2017 and <a href="http://bit.ly/ibmworkshops" target="_blank">sign-up</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"> for the workshop.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About the Author:</span></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/invisiblethread/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/JoseOrtiz_HCM.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/invisiblethread/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/JoseOrtiz_HCM.jpg" style=" display:block; margin: 1em 1em 0pt 0pt; float: left;"></img></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Jose Ortiz, </span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Senior Technical Staff Member,</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> IBM Project Orpheus, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">IBM Watson and Cloud Platform </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">&nbsp;</p>If your organization uses different public/private cloud environments and you&rsquo;re looking for a single solution to manage these multi-cloud environments, you should continue reading this blog. &nbsp; We&rsquo;re all aware that enterprises are rapidly...002758urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-38ec41bf-1707-4611-9e09-dcc2fb5ebe03The Invisible Thread2017-09-25T10:16:51-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-2350b962-61a4-49b7-86da-5a6150d99186IT Technical Summit Beijing: Young professionals lead the wayErikaHorrocks270004AK9XactivefalseComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikestrue2012-09-14T16:13:05-04:002012-09-14T16:45:14-04:00
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<p>The IBM Software Technical Summit in China, which was held earlier last month in Beijing, was heavily geared toward the IT practitioners. This was easily observed from the participant demographics. At the conference, I was more likely to run into a young IT professional wearing casual outfits than a business suit. I admit, the choice of clothing was partly due to the artistic DNA of this city, which is the cultural center of China and nurtures more musicians than any other place in the country. But the point is, if you are an IT practitioner who cares about the latest technologies, this was the place to be.</p>
<p>There were four focus areas on the conference agenda: cloud computing, mobile development, big data, and agile practices. The conference lasted for two days with general sessions and every morning and break out sessions in the afternoons. Each breakout session discussed deep technical areas in each of the four tracks, including hands-on labs that gave attendees a chance to experience the latest technologies and IBM products.</p>
<p>For the mobile track, in which I delivered two presentations on IBM Worklight technologies, it's no surprise that most sessions enjoyed full-house attendance. Starting with the IMPACT conference in Las Vegas in April, where the IBM mobile foundation offerings were announced, to the Innovate conference in Orlando in June, mobile development has been a hot topic among IBM customers and business partners. Unlike some of the previous advancements in technologies, where visionary companies like IBM pioneered a technology and found themselves having to spend time explaining why it would help customers, the mobile phenomenon is completely customer-led. Customers already understand why mobile is important, and they look to IBM for solutions to the challenges they are facing. Such trends can be easily observed in the China market. From the customer visits to talking to the conference participants, I found that many customers and business partners were already well into the game. They would come to us with specific requirements, discussing a particular challenge they have run in to.</p>
<p>Two recurring themes emerged from the few days of interacting with my Chinese colleagues and having fun in this exciting space:</p>
<blockquote><h3>The recognition that a consumer-facing mobile application must go through a rigorous design process to be competitive.</h3><p>The AppStore provides a surface where competitor offerings are directly put together head-to-head, with a rating system that can make or break an application. This forces IT managers to allocate much more resources toward the design aspect than before with non-mobile application development. This also puts a bigger emphasis on the agility of a mobile application development, where design changes may happen more frequently and must be integrated to the implementation in a timely manner. If the optimal design was not incorporated and the application gets a low rating in the public AppStore, it's hugely expensive to recover from that. This calls for the adopting of true agile processes and usage of the best software lifecycle platforms such as those offering by IBM Rational based on the Jazz platform. </p><h3>The concern that HTML5 based mobile hybrid applications may not be able to meet the demanding criteria in user experience.</h3><p>Mobile applications are the perfect playground for innovative minds of the world to try out their new ideas. As a result cool new user interactions continue to emerge all the time. For example, a banking application can now allow money transfers between accounts by two users bumping their phones together. Examples like this cause big headaches for enterprise mobile developers when they consider how to implement these features, and not just for one platform, but for many platforms. Hybrid development using HTML5 technologies is an obvious choice for cross-platform support, but it has its inherent drawbacks in performance and smoothness of the user experience.</p></blockquote>
<p>The two-day conference was already over before you know it. But the technical discussions between the IT practitioners and solution providers like IBM will continue. Together we'll build a smarter world where software is at the heart of innovation and progress.</p>
<p>This video captured and energy and the theme of the conference, the building drumbeat of IT and the importance of developers in today's technical world.</p>
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<p>Learn about the <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/">IBM Worklight solution</a>, which allows mobile developers to mix and match HTML5 and native code to achieve the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>Follow the <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/mobileblog/?lang=en">Mobile Frontier</a> blog for updates about mobile news. </p>
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<h2>About the author</h2><p><img src="https://dw1.s81c.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/invisiblethread/resource/jim.jpg" style="float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px" width="70" />
</p><p>Jim Zhang </p><p>Jim Zhang is the architect for IBM Worklight Studio, he has been involved in the IBM Mobile Foundation development since its inception. After the Worklight acquisition, Jim helped transforming the original Worklight Studio into a full-featured, end-to-end mobile development IDE. Before this Jim was the architect for Rational Application Developer's Web 2.0 and Dojo tooling. The exciting world of open web development has always been Jim's passion and his tooling designs are helping IBM customers around the world build high quality enterprise applications using the latest web technologies.</p>
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The IBM Software Technical Summit in China, which was held earlier last month in Beijing, was heavily geared toward the IT practitioners. This was easily observed from the participant demographics. At the conference, I was more likely to run into a young IT...005590urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-38ec41bf-1707-4611-9e09-dcc2fb5ebe03The Invisible Thread2017-09-25T10:16:51-04:00